Our new catalog, with the red-haired warrior-woman on the cover, should be arriving in your mail any moment now, if not already. If you are a customer, that is! You can also download it this minute, by clicking HERE.

BEHAVING MADLY HCOur Highest Recommendation. By Steve Ditko, Jack Davis, Basil Womverton, Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, Joe Maneely et al. When “Mad” was turned into a magazine in 1954, every publisher and his uncle came up with his own version, often using the same talented creators!! 200 pages of never before reprinted material! Looking for a little more excitement in your life? Get mad and get Snafu, Lunatickle, Cockeyed, Crazy, Thimk, Frenzy, Frantic, Loco, Panic, and Zany, too! Besides the names above, also here are Bill Elder, John Severin, Al Jaffee, Ross Andru, Joe Kubert, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Lee Elias, and many others. IDW, 2017...More.

There's no full collections of early Mad in print right now, though we do have the original Russ Cochran's Complete EC Mad Library, with issues #1-24. Just one copy in stock in Rare Books for $325. But we also have the Original Idiots collections of Davis, Wood and Elder Mad work, both individually and combined in a slipcase; The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein, regular and deluxe signed edition; and Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad by Bill Schelly. So we're not totally bereft of Mad-ening goodies.

And the greatest imitation of them all, EC's own sister title Panic, is available in the Dark Horse Archives series. Volume 1 is in stock [ECP01H. $49.99, your price $39.99]. Volume 2 is just now being announced for publication in October.

Art Books

VALERIAN THE ILLUSTRATED TREASURYThe Universe of Valerian and Laureline. Highly Recommended. By Pierre Christin. Art by Jean-Claude Mézières. Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets introduced audiences to a future populated by weird and wonderful aliens and laced with incredible futuristic technology. Now discover the universe of the original Valerian and Laureline albums! Information on key locations (including Central Point), transport, galactic anomalies and a timeline of the major events in the series, all richly illustrated. Plus the alien races and characters, friendly and hostile, as well as a special section on the ever-popular Shingouz. Titan, 2017...More.

BLACK SHIPS BEFORE TROYThe Story of THE ILIAD. Winner Kate Greenaway Medal. By Rosemary Sutcliff. Art by Alan Lee. This stunning children's (and all-ages) version of The Iliad by the award-winning Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee was first published in 1993 and is being republished now in a beautiful new edition. Its rich illustration will look familiar to Lord of the Rings fans, as Lee was the conceptual artist for the amazing Peter Jackson films. Featuring the stories of heroes Ajax, Achilles and Penthesilea (the Amazon Queen), this is high adventure at its best, with full color paintings on nearly every page. Wrap-around cover. Frances Lincoln, 2017...More.

IT'S ALIVE! CLASSIC HORROR AND SCI-FI MOVIE POSTERS FROM THE KIRK HAMMETT COLLECTIONRecommended. Edited by Daniel Finamore. One of the world's premier collections of horror and sci-fi movie posters amassed, not altogether surprisingly, by the dark mind of Metallica's lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett. Before Kirk Hammett assumed the heavy metal mantle of one of the most successful and beloved bands in rock history, he was a geek for the imaginative universe of horror. This generously illustrated book highlights the finest examples from Hammett's personal collection—an astonishing trove of horror and sci-fi film posters that span the history of the genre. Peabody Essex Museum, 2017...More.

VOLUPTUOUS TERRORS 120 Horror & Sci-Fi Film Posters From ItalyRecommended. Edited by G.H. Janus. 120 film posters by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists, created for both indigenous and foreign-language (some U.S.) film productions. Classic science fiction and pulp horror in full-color, full-page reproductions showcasing exploitation horror films unique to Italy. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, compositions almost invariably included curvaceous female figures in jeopardy, juxtaposed with the iconography of fantasy and terror. Minor nudity, major violence. Deicide Press, 2017. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: VOLTE
Soft Cover, 8x11, 128pg, Full Color
$29.95 $26.95

This is so closely related to the Italian comic book scene and their outrageous covers, we have to mention the two Sex and Horror titles, each featuring one of the masters of cover art. And see our website for more collection of vintage Poster Art.

Artist Editions & San Diego Con Exclusive Variants

JACK KIRBY FOREVER PEOPLE Artist's Edition Variant CoverAlmost Gone! Limited to 100! San Diego Con Exclusive Recommended. By Jack Kirby. Now out of print from the publisher; this and Beta-Ray Bill are the only variant editions we've ever gotten from IDW; they are always show exclusives strictly available from the publisher. The cover is a self-portrait of Jack. We have just five copies as I write this. Continuing IDW's yearlong celebration of the centennial of Jack "King" Kirby's birth! Jack Kirby's classic Fourth World Epic told the story of a group of New Gods sent to Earth to oppose Darkseid. Featuring Beautiful Dreamer, Big Bear, Moonrider, and others, this was Kirby's take on super-powered flower children! Includes #1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, with nearly all pages scanned from the originals. IDW, 2017. Out of Print....More.

WALTER SIMONSON'S THE MIGHTY THOR The Return of Beta Ray Bill Artist's Edition Variant CoverAlmost Gone! Limited to 100 with a variant cover. San Diego Con Exclusive. By Walter Simonson. A special edition of this Artist's Edition, not normally available to us, reserved only for the publisher's own sales. We only have five copies. Collects The Mighty Thor #349-354. The fate of Earth and Asgard hang in the balance as Thor, Beta Ray Bill, and tons of guest-stars battle Surtur and his horde of invading demons! The second Thor Artist's Edition by the legendary comics' creator Walter Simonson offers you the entire story--and from the original artwork, full size and scanned to capture every detail on every page! IDW, 2017. Out of Print....More.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Artisan Edition
By Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. All the art, from the original art pages, to the first issue of one of the most important comic books--and success stories--of the last 35 years! Scanned directly from the original art, mimicking the experience of the original hand drawn page, and also collecting all the preliminary layouts (also hand drawn) by the creators of what has been called "this generation's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck." Rounding out the volume is a gallery of bonus model pages, sketches, promotional pages. IDW, 2017...More.

SPAWN VAULT EDITIONAlmost Gone! Signed by Todd McFarlane By Todd McFarlane. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Spawn, Todd McFarlane has opened his personal vault and is collecting the first seven issues of Spawn direct from the original art. Never-before-published original art boards in a new oversized (12.25"x 17.25") hardcover book. Included in this special SIGNED edition, are extra surprises from Todd: Randomly selected books will include an inserted one-of-a-kind sketch by Todd McFarlane. Already out of print, so we may have just our very small initial stock. Image, 2017. Out of Print....More.

FYI, we have just five each of the two variant editions, and just four of Spawn, which is also out of print and was not announced as having a signature. Act accordingly.

Comic Book Archives

MONSTERMEN And Other Scary StoriesNow in Softcover. Highly Recommended. By Gary Gianni. Introduction by Michael Chabon. Gary Gianni's occult detective series The MonsterMen, first published as backups in Hellboy, is collected here in its entirety in an entirely new softcover edition--it was first done in hardcover in 2012. Well-known for his run on the syndicated newspaper comic strip Prince Valiant and many special projects, here Gianni gives us five complete Monstermen comic book stories, plus illustrated prose stories based on works by Robert E. Howard, William Hope Hodgson, and Clark Ashton Smith! Dark Horse, 2017...More.

THE MICHAEL MOORCOCK LIBRARY Volume 5Elric The Vanishing Tower Recommended. By Roy Thomas. Art and Introduction by Jan Duursema. Adapted from the original book by Michael Moorcock. With his reluctant companion Moonglum in tow, the albino emperor embarks upon a perilous quest in search of the dark sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. But in order to achieve his goal, he must first prove himself against the many horrors of the Young Kingdoms and form an unlikely pact with the beautiful and mysterious Myshella, the Empress of the Dawn. Collects the six issues published by First Publishing in 1987. Titan, 2017...More.

See our website for previous volumes and other Elric series, and also Elric: The Balance Lost Vols 1-3, now all at half price while supply lasts: only two each of #1&2 are left, 5 of #3: [ELR01, ELR02, ELR03. $14.99, your price $7.50 each].

PRE-CODE CLASSICS Out of The Shadows Volume 1Limited, 1,700! Collects #5-10, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. By Alex Toth, Reed Crandall, George Tuska, Grandenetti, Andru, et al. For a minor title, this has an all-star line-up of artists! Standard Comics did not believe in #1 issues--they started all their horror titles with #5. But what titles--these were above-average in both art and story, and good, solid storytelling. Their titles included The Unseen, Adventures into Darkness & and this-- each lasted just ten issues or so. All well done E.C. imitations. Alex Toth is brilliant here; Reed Crandall does two stories (noted in his new bio), Jack Katz (The First Kingdom) is bizarre and fun. PS Artbooks, 2017...More.

PRE-CODE CLASSICS NIGHTMARE Volume 1Limited, 300! Collects #3, 1953 and #10-13, 1953-54. Recommended. By Kinstler, Kubert, Toth, Murphy Anderson, Colan, Matt Baker et al. Artists include Everett Raymond Kinstler, Joe Kubert, Alex Toth, Murphy Anderson, Gene Colan, Bernie Krigstein, Matt Baker (doing a horror cover, no less!), George Tuska and Bob Powell (2 stories).Here are adaptations of Poe's "Hop-Frog" and "The Black Cat," a Kubert bondage cover, and a cannibalism story! St. John was a mid-sized comics publisher with a varied list of titles, best known for above average material but especially for the superb romance comics by Matt Baker. In June 1952 they joined the horror binge with this short run title. PS Artbooks, 2017...More.

We have 49 different Pre-Code Classics titles & volumes in stock, a great many on sale. Check them all out online: sort by price to see all the sale titles first.

Comic Book Artists

JERRY AND THE JOKER: ADVENTURES AND COMIC ARTHighly Recommended. By Jerry Robinson, with notes by Jens Robinson. In this memoir, penned by the late Jerry Robinson in his final years, he tells the story of a seventeen-year-old college hopeful who became the artist on Detective Comics, and later Batman, shares his thoughts on creating the Joker as the first super villain, and relates the celebrity-studded journeys that a long life in comics afforded him. Jerry was one of the very few Golden Age artists to save his original art--so here are never before published and rarely seen originals from the likes of Detective Comics #76 and Batman #14 and cover artwork featuring Batman, Robin, and the Joker. Dark Horse, 2017...More.

KIRBY KING OF COMICS (ANNIVERSARY EDITION)Highly Recommended. By Mark Evanier. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. Almost everything that was different about comic books began in the 1940s on the drawing table of Jack Kirby. This is his story by one who knew him well—Mark Evanier. Originally issued in 2008, Kirby: King of Comics was the first overview of the legendary comic book creator's career. It is now available in a smaller, more affordable package, revised and expanded for Kirby's centennial. Abrams Comicarts, 2017...More.

Item Code: KIRKC
Soft Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Partial Color
$24.99

Back in Stock

THRILLING COMIC BOOK COVER ART OF ALEX SCHOMBURGBack in stock. Highly Recommended. By J. David Spurlock. Thrilling, Wonder, Captain America, America's Best, Marvel, Exciting, Startling: Alex Schomburg produced the most dazzling array of high-quality comic-book covers in the Golden Age of American Comics. Stan Lee said, "Alex Schomburg was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post." This book collects, for the first time, a host of tantalizing Schomburg treasures in one volume. Superheroes, jungle girls, robots, wild animals, and space travelers abound in these romantic and nostalgic Pop-Art icons of the bygone WWII era. Vanguard, 2005...More.

THE EYES OF THE CATRecommended. By Moebius & Jodorowsky. This is a very special graphic story, told with almost no words. It was the very first collaboration between Jodorowsky and Moebius, done purely for the love of the project and for no pay whatsoever. The original edition was distributed for free, but soon it was pirated and today they sell for 100 Euros (about $150). The story features a sightless monk and a powerful, predatory eagle flying through a deserted city, Directed by the monk, it is looking for new eyes for his master. There are no panels, each page is a full, finely detailed drawing printed in black on striking yellow paper. Humaniods, 2016...More.

See our website for all available Moebius collections, including Rare Books, Edena, Madwoman of the Sacred Heart, the adult Angel Claws, and work in the sale-priced Someday Funnies. Only eight copies remain in stock:

ALSO AVAILABLETHE SOMEDAY FUNNIESCloseout Price!Our Highest Recommendation. By Michel Choquette. Art by Moebius, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jack Kirby, Russ Heath, Vaughn Bode, Jeffrey Jones. I'm totally blown away, Imagine a time capsule from 1975, with all the best comics artists doing original strips--packed away until now. Never published.This is it--comic strips created in the early 1970s by world-famous artists and writers such as C. C. Beck, René Goscinny, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Frank Brunner, Gray Morrow, and Gahan Wilson. And written by Archie Goodwin, Steve Englehart and a ton of other creators. All original one and two page--oversized page--strips about the recently past 1960s of drugs, rebellion, music... Abrams, 2011. Mature Readers. Note: Copies may have slight bump....More.

Item Code: SMEH
Hard Cover, 12x16, 216pg, Full Color
$55.00 $27.50

Connie by Frank Godwin

CONNIE 1 & 2 SETFive episodes, 1936-38. Highly Recommended. By Frank Godwin. Frank Godwin's Connie, produced in the 1930s for the Ledger Syndicate, was groundbreaking in many ways. Its heroine was a woman of action who roamed the Earth and even explored space. Godwin's magnificent art drew from the pulp magazine sci-fi design of the day, creating futuristic machinery and fantastic creatures with equal ease. Pulished in 2010, we were pleased to find these still available and now at an exclusive sale price. Two book set, the first with four episodes: The Unseen Avenger, The Kimberly Curse, Race to Yucatan, and Death In Stone, and the second with one long story, The Menace of Mo Tung. Pacific Comics Club, 2010...More.

Item Code: CON01P
Soft Cover, 7x8, 160pg, b&w
$29.90 $14.95

CONNIE 3 & 4 SETThe Four Science Fiction Episodes, 1939. Highly Recommended. By Frank Godwin. If you never read another Connie, this is the one not to miss. This is the famous sci-fi sequence, where Connie and her friends blast off into space and find alien races and, more surprisingly, other earth people on Venus and the moons of Saturn. Godwin's beautiful line drawings (he later did the same beautiful work on Rusty Riley, after a long career in the slick magazines and advertising art), and his depiction of 1930s-era sci-fi, make this a must-have classic.Two book set with four stories: Captives of the space Pirates, Master of the Jovian Moons, Battle for Titan and Predators of Polaria. Pacific Comics Club, 2009...More.

Item Code: CON02P
Soft Cover, 7x8, 140pg, 110pg, b&w
$29.90 $14.95

2018 Calendars

ECHO CHERNIK MUSE 2018 Calendar SignedSigned! By Echo Chernik. Echo Chernik's Art Nouveau calendar Echo Muse 2018 features one of her most familiar models: Meghan Perkins. In sensual and near-nude illustrations, this unique calendar offers Art Nouveau style with modern sensibilities. And in a unique very tall format, which makes each page a small poster that you can separate and display after the year is over. Echo is a brilliant, innovative artist who takes traditional art styles and classic iconography of the female form and remixes them to create exciting new works. Echo-X, 2017...More.

Item Code: EC18
9x13, 24pg, Full Color
$23.95

Just one this week but it's a good one, we got it from Echo who sets up each year at the San Diego Comic-Con. See our website for all the 2018 calendars. And save big on older calendars, as low as $1.99.

Game of Thrones

THE MYSTERY KNIGHT A Graphic NovelAn entirely new graphic novel, never before published. Recommended. By George R.R. Martin, adapted by Ben Avery, art by Mike S. Miller. This full-color graphic novel adapts one of the Dunk and Egg novellas from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms...a prequel to A Game of Thrones. Westeros is eerily peaceful. King Aerys I sits on the Iron Throne. Yet beneath the surface, tensions linger sixteen years after a failed rebellion. Hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall and his precocious boy squire, Egg, secretly a Prince of House Targaryen, are nearly starving, riding north for Winterfell. Lured off the Kingsroad by a wedding feast—and an unusually lucrative tournament -- they are soon deep in palace intrigue and a new revolution...and violent death. Bantam Books, 2017...More.

Item Code: MYSKH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color
$26.00 $22.95

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is now sold out—we did have it for quite a while, with the limited signed bookplate.

ALSO AVAILABLESEVEN KINGDOMS SKETCHBOOK Signed with DrawingSigned & limited, 750! Our Highest Recommendation. By Gary Gianni. Gianni's self-published collection of sketches for the George R.R. Martin bestselling novel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Three color prelims and 120 pencil drawings, many preliminary drawings that were never used, others changed and developed into the book's illustrations. Gary has generously done a very small pencil drawing in each of our copies. Full page as well as multiple images of swordfights, characters, encampments, a wedding, a diminutive female archer, royalty, and much more. Hieronymus Press, 2016...More.

Item Code: SEVKS
Soft Cover, 9x12, 68pg, b&w
$20.00

VOYAGE TO THE PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMEN DVDOriginally release 1968. Directed by Peter Bogdonavich. With Mamie Van Doren Mary Marr, Paige Lee. After the collision of a meteor and subsequent explosion of a rocket sent to Venus, astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John are launched to explore Venus. They arrive in the Space Station Texas for refueling but have problems landing on Venus. Another rocket is launched to rescue the first team and explore the planet. But they are attacked by a flying reptile, which they kill, without knowing that it is worshipped and considered a God by the Venusian women who use their powerful connection with nature to try and destroy the invaders. Dub3 & Comcs Price Guide, 2016...More.

Item Code: VOYP
DVD, 78 min, 1 disc, Full Color
$12.95

Coming in November

ART OF HARLEY QUINNHighly Recommended. Packed with the most iconic covers and panels in Harley Quinn history, The Art of Harley Quinn is the ultimate visual guide to one of the most beloved villains in comic books today. Eager girls don her costume at shows. She was the single best part of the recent Suicide Squad film. This deluxe art book provides the complete history of Harley Quinn comic art, detailing the creation and evolution of the character through exclusive interviews with the writers and artists who have brought the character to life. Insight, 2017. Due Nov. ...More.

ALEX TOTH'S THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS CLASSIC Artist's Edition PortfolioRecommended. Alex Toth is considered to be one of the finest storytellers in the history of comics, and The Case of the Curious Classic is one of his absolute best. It is also one of the very few stories Toth both wrote and drew. Now this Curious Classic is being presented as an Artist's Edition Portfolio, a fitting tribute to one of the forms' finest creators! IDW, 2017. Due Nov. ...More.

Item Code: ATCAEH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 12x17, 16pg, b&w
$39.99

GREEN ARROW THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS Voume 1Collects More Fun Comics #73-107, World's Finest Comics #7-28 and Adventure Comics #103-117, 1941-47. Recommended. By Mort Weisinger, art by George Papp, Lee Elias, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams et al. For the first time, DC collects the early 1940s tales that introduced the crime-fighting archer known as Green Arrow, who today stars in the hit CW TV series Arrow. In these original adventures, millionaire industrialist Oliver Queen battles crime with the help of his young ward, Speedy, taking on corruption and crime in Star City, including villains like Bull's-Eye, the Voice, the Skylark and many more. DC, 2017. Due Nov. ...More.

Bargain Books 50%-75% Off

These books are low in stock, and may have already been marked down once. I've marked them down even further just for this listing, to clear them out to make way for new items. First come, first served.

You can see all of our discounted items on the website, under Closeouts at the end of each category (such as Artists and Illustration, Comics Related, etc).

Rare & Out of Print

We just listed a beautiful two book set by Barry Windsor-Smith, and we have added another group of Glamour International magazines. We just recently got our hands on some Publisher’s File Copies from Underwood Books, including deluxe slipcased versions of Frank Frazetta's Teastament and Legacy. They will be included in future weekly emails as we process them.

Mature Readers

This week we have a brand-new signed and limited book of finished and very explicit drawings by Armando Huerta: Rapture. Armando's books are always done in limited edition. See our website for his previous collections.

Next up is the start of a new Cavewoman adventure, this including a spoof on Star Trek. Yes, really! With the usual nude variant cover by Budd Root. See the website for all Cavewoman, including several in very small quantities which are on sale.

Last up we have two new adult DVDs: Little Blue Box, which is a voyeuristic story of getting to see exactly what you'd like, with an impressive cast. And Matinee Idol, about casting couches and an estranged pair of porn stars. See our website for all our Mature and Adult DVDs.

I just got an advance look at the galleys of this, and it looks just great. We may end up featuring it on our catalog cover. Not only does this examine the not-to-be-missed origins of Fiction House as a publisher, but it covers a lot of ground never before covered. It also examines each major title, with best-of covers and a selection of complete stories from each title.

Canadian Whites

Ivan Kocmarek has posted two new columns on Comic Book Daily. Both are well worth reading, one discusses which company is the most collectible and the second discusses the very best artists of the entire history from 1941-46. Links to both are below. Enjoy. And in case you want to learn more, here’s a link to every archive and comic book reprint of the Whites that are available—I keep them all in stock:

Nelvana of the Northern Lights, Wow Comics, Polka Dot Pirate, and Brok Windsor. We also still have five Johnny Canuck left, signed/hurt copies at half price [JOCHR. $24.95, your price $12.95] plus as-new ones at full price. Brok Windsor features the very best art of all of these, is still on sale exclusively from us [BROKH. $24.95, your price $14.95].

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